Vaccinating one-year-olds against chickenpox could temporarily nearly double the incidence of shingles in the wider population, but in younger adults than previously thought.
The effect occurs because...

In light of the dozens of mumps cases reportedly linked to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign campus, school officials are calling on students to receive a booster shot of the MMR (measles,...

A new weapon in the arsenal in the fight against Ebola has a Mount St. Mary’s University researcher hopeful that progress is being made toward finding a cure for the devastating viral disease.
A recently-tested...

Pertussis incidence remains significant in California in 2015 to date as health officials report 3,404 cases this year so far. This number is high, so high that health data shows that this is the highest...

August is National Immunization Awareness Month
With many school districts across Pennsylvania opening their doors this month, the Departments of Health and Education are announcing the “Don’t Wait....

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) last week released the webinar, HHS Working Group on Lyme and Other Tickborne Diseases presents: Vaccines for Lyme Disease – Past, present, and future,...

The number of 13- to 17-year-old boys and girls getting the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine increased slightly for the second year in a row, according to data from CDC’s 2014 National Immunization...

Hepatitis B infections are among the most common infectious diseases worldwide. The disease can become chronic, and is one of the most important causes of severe diseases such as liver cancer. In the scope...